Savour the flavour of summer with this recipe for roasted cherry tomatoes with garlic and thyme. Slow roasting for 35 minutes leads to sweet and flavour-packed tomatoes. I wish I could bottle up summer and save it for those dreary midterm weeks in November and February. September is feeling much too close for my liking, it’s [...]Read More »

Foods always bring me back to places, and this Basil Garlic Spaghetti Sauce is no different. This sauce reminds me of summers spent up at the cottage with my Grandmother. Lazy days spent fishing by the dock and feeding the ducks, or biking into town and splashing in the lake were always accompanied by a [...]Read More »

So here’s the thing, Tomato Garlic Swiss Chard is my new favourite. I make it at least weekly, but preferably daily. Kind of like that time when I would eat those little white sugared doughnuts daily. That was fun. But we’re trying to stay healthy here, so no more powdered sugared doughnuts, or Old Fashioned [...]Read More »

I’m usually more of a saucy and cheesy pasta kind of girl. You know, that pasta, the quintessential pasta, the one where the pasta sauce that is simmered for hours before being mixed with pasta, then its thrown in a casserole and covered with cheese and baked in the oven until it’s all melted and [...]Read More »

Up until a week ago I thought I hated orzo. I had a valid reason though, there was this one time when I had a bad experience. All I’ll say about said experience is plane food. I think it’s pretty self explanatory, but plane food is usually rather revolting, and orzo on a plane might [...]Read More »

Use shrimp, butter and garlic for this quick shrimp in butter garlic sauce appetizer that comes together in five minutes with melted butter and garlic. Shrimp is one of my favourite things to eat. No explanation necessary, I think it’s a favourite for many. The only hang up about shrimp is that it is expensive. But [...]Read More »

Honey garlic chicken drumsticks are in my opinion one of the best finger foods. Honestly, you just can’t go wrong with honey and garlic, whether it’s in wing or leg form. You also can’t go wrong with finger foods… therefore this combination of honey and garlic in finger food form is bliss. Do you want [...]Read More »

A simple side dish that comes together in 10 minutes, tomato garlic Parmesan couscous is an easy and fast recipe to accompany any meal. The end of summer has really thrown off both my cooking and my blogging! I’ve been busy working, and just enjoying these last few remaining days until – gasp – my [...]Read More »

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Hi, I'm Louisa Clements but you can call me Lou and welcome to Living Lou. I'm a 23 year old food blogger and aspiring Renaissance woman from Toronto, Ontario.